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FUETHER KILLIGREW MSS. RELATING TO THE KILLIGREW 

 PYRAMID OR MONUMENT AT FALMOUTH, AND OTHER 

 MATTERS. 

 By HOWARD FOX, P.G.S. 



In the third volume of your Journal, 1871 (pp. 269—282) 

 Mr. E. N. Worth gave some particulars of the family of 

 Killigrew, and the " principal portions " of a manuscript history 

 written by Martin Killigrew, in 1738. 



In 1884, Mr. Walter H. Tregellas published in his "Cornish 

 Worthies," (vol. ii, pp. 115 — 195), a graphic account of the 

 " diplomatists, warriors, courtiers, and poets," for whom the 

 family of Killigrew were famous. 



In the ninth volume of your Journal, 1887 (pp. 182 — 216) 

 Mr. H. M. Jeffery, F.R.S., your then Vice-President, gave a 

 series of valuable papers " On the Early Topography of 

 Falmouth, Budock, Mylor, and the river Fal," illustrated by 

 maps of diifferent periods of time; a "Notice of Arwenack 

 House;" " References to Glasney College;" " Tables showing 

 the Pedigree of the three branches of the Killigrew Family," 

 together with the completion of a manuscript of which Mr. 

 Worth had given an abstract. Mr. Jeffrey also added a copy of 

 a second manuscript, reprinted from the Western Daily Mercury 

 of Nov. 21, 1878. 



I have, through the courtesy of Mr. John D. Mitchell, 

 resident agent of the Earl of Kimberley at Falmouth, been 

 allowed to see a packet of letters written by Mr. Martin 

 Killigrew in London during the years 1736 — 1738. These letters 

 are, with one exception, addressed to Mr. Abraham Hall, at 

 Falmouth, who succeeded Martin Killigrew in the stewardship 

 of the Arwenack Estate in 1730.* 



Mr. Worth's article gave one of these letters, viz. : the one 

 dated ' 16 Aprill, 1837,' in full, and some characteristic sentences 

 from a few of the other letter s. The paper on which these 

 * Martin Killigrew was steward during the years 1700 — 1735. 



